New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-07-20

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State pride and sectional attachment
are natural passions in the human
breast. and are so near akin to patriot
ism as to be distinguished only from it
IN the court Of higher reason. But
there is nobler love of country
patriotism that rises above all places
and sections. that knows no county, no
state. no north, no south, but only na-
tive land; that claims no mountain
slopes, that clings to no river bank; that
worships no range of hills; but lifts the
aspiring eye to continent redeemed
from barbarism by common sacrifice
and made sacred by the shedding OF
kindred blood: such a patriotism is the
cable and sheet-anchor of our hope.
A second requisite for the preserva.
ton OF American institutions is the U1si-
versat Secular Education of the People.
Monarchies govern their subjects by
authority and precedent; republics by
right, reason and free will. Whether
one method or the other will be better,
turns wholly upon the intelligence OF
the governed. If the subject have not
the knowledge and discipline necessary
to govern himself, it is better that a
king, in whom some skill in the science
OF government is presumed, should rule
him. As between two stupendous evils,
the rational tyranny of the intelligent
few is preferable to the furious and ir-
rational tyranny of the ignorant many.
No force which has moved among
men, impelling to bad action, inspiring
to crime. overturning order, tearing
away the bulwark of liberty and right
and converting civilization into waste,
has been so full of evil and so powerful
to destroy as blind, ignorant. and fac
tious democracy. A republic without
intelligence even high degree of in
telligence is a paradox and an impss-
sibility.-What means that principle of
the Declaration of Independence which
declares the consent of the governed to
be the true foundation of al just author
typ What kind of Consent is re-
ferred to? Manifestly not the passive
and unresisting acquiescence Of the
mind, which like potter's clay, receives
whatever is impressed upon it; but the
active thinking, resolute, conscious,
personal consent which distinguishes
the true freeman from the plppet.
When the people of the q. s. rise to the
height Of this noble and intelligent self
assertion, the occupation of the party
leader-most desplcable of all tyrants
will be gone forever; and in order that
the people may ascend TO that high
plane, the means by which intelligence is
fostered, right reason exalted, and q
calm, rational public opinion produced,
must be universally secured. The Pub
Tic Free School is the fountain whose
streams shall make glad all the Glands of
liberty. We must educate or perish.
A third thing necessary to the perpe-
tuity of American liberty is federation -
liberation in the broadcast and most
glorious sense. In the colonial times
intolerance embittered the lives Of our
fathers. Until the present day the
baleful shadow has been over the land.
Inc prospective vices ofthe Middle Ages
have hswed down with the distrust of
freedom. Liberty in the mind of men
has meant the privilege of agreeing
with the majority. Men have desired
free thought, but fear has stood at the
door. It remains for the U. S. to build
a highway, broad and free, into every
field OF liberal inquiry, and to make the
poorest of men walk therein, more Sc
cure in life and reputation than the sol
der who sleeps behind the ramparts.
Prescription has no part nor lot in the
American system. The stake, the glib
bet and the rack. thumb-screws, sword
and pillory, have no place on this side
of the sea.
Nature is diversified; so are human
faculties, beliefs and practices. Essen
tial freedom is the right to differ; and
that right must be sacredly respected.
Nor must the privilege of dissent be
conceded with GOODNESS and disdain,
but openly. cordially, and with good
will. No loss of rank, abatement Of
character, or ostracism from society
must darken the pathway of the hum
blest OF the seekers after truth. The
right of free thought, free inquiry. and
free speech. is as clear as the MONDAY
and bounteous as the air of the ocean
Without full and cheerful recognition
Of this right, America is only name,
her glory q dream, her institutions q
mockery.
The tourths idea essential to the well
fare and the stability of the Republic,
is The Nobility Of Ldbor. It is the mis-
sion of the q. S. to enoble toll and hon.
or the toiler. In other lands the labor
has been considered the lot of serfs and
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